PMID:10387047
| Citation |
Geck, MK and Kirsch, JF (1999) A novel, definitive test for substrate channeling illustrated with the aspartate aminotransferase/malate dehydrogenase system. Biochemistry 38:8032-7 |
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| Abstract |
A novel method is presented that establishes definitively the existence or nonexistence of direct metabolite transfer between consecutive enzymes in a metabolic sequence. The procedure is developed with the specific example of channeling of oxaloacetate between Escherichia coli aspartate aminotransferase (AATase) and malate dehydrogenase (MDH). The assay is carried out in the presence of a large excess of inactive variants of AATase. These mutants would outcompete the much smaller quantities of wild-type AATase for any docking sites on MDH and thus decrease the rate of the coupled L-aspartate to oxaloacetate to malate sequence only if the direct metabolite transfer mechanism is operative. The results show that oxaloacetate is not transferred directly from AATase to MDH because no decrease in rate was observed in the presence of approximately 100 microM inactive mutants. This concentration is 10 times the physiological AATase concentration, which was determined in this work. The methodology can be applied generally. |
| Links |
PubMed Online version:10.1021/bi983029c |
| Keywords |
Arginine/genetics; Aspartate Aminotransferases/chemistry; Aspartate Aminotransferases/genetics; Aspartate Aminotransferases/metabolism; Aspartic Acid/analogs & derivatives; Aspartic Acid/chemistry; Aspartic Acid/genetics; Aspartic Acid/metabolism; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Malate Dehydrogenase/chemistry; Malate Dehydrogenase/metabolism; Malates/chemistry; Malates/metabolism; Multienzyme Complexes/chemistry; Multienzyme Complexes/genetics; Multienzyme Complexes/metabolism; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; Oxaloacetic Acid/chemistry; Oxaloacetic Acid/metabolism; Pyridoxine/analogs & derivatives; Pyridoxine/chemistry; Substrate Specificity/genetics |
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